{"id":744,"date":"2012-02-03T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2012-02-07T00:24:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T00:24:39","slug":"is-twitter-going-to-start-blocking-gay-tweets-in-anti-lgbt-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/02\/is-twitter-going-to-start-blocking-gay-tweets-in-anti-lgbt-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Twitter Going To Start Blocking \u201cGay\u201d Tweets In Anti-LGBT Countries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has announcedthat it now has \u201cthe ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country\u2014while keeping it available in the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Essentially, if a specific country does not allow certain types of expression (Twitter uses the example of pro-Nazi content in France and Germany), it can request that a tweet be blocked to users within that country. It will still show up in Twitter feds elsewhere around the world. Previously, Twitter could only block tweets on a global level.<\/p>\n<p>While it seems that Twitter intends to use this policy in good faith, questions are already being raised about whether anti-gay states in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East would use the new system to censor words like \u201cgay\u201d or other LGBT-related terms from their Twitter lexicon.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/is-twitter-going-to-start-blocking-gay-tweets-in-anti-lgbt-countries-20120130\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+queerty2+%28Queerty%29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/02\/twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-745\" title=\"twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/02\/twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/twitter_newbird_boxed_blueonwhite.png?resize=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has announcedthat it now has \u201cthe ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country\u2014while keeping it available in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}